fish choices… all is well so far, with this crazy weather…

[Magnum Man]

so our house has central air conditioning, and the thermostat is set at 75 degrees F.

so my heaters are maintaining tanks, at the desired set points, with the exception of 2 cooler water tanks, which have been averaging about 72-73 degrees being they are in the basement, and the fish are doing fine with a couple degrees over set point…

I didn’t really take into consideration, the 2 tanks in my non-heated, or air conditioned entry way… fortunately those are equator fish, as the 65 gallon, basically sitting on the floor, is 81 degrees F. the tank above it is 84 degrees F.
I honestly don’t think I could survive the +100 degree weather, without an air conditioner to get out of the heat, at minimum I wouldn’t be able to sleep… I’m not sure I would keep fish, if I didn’t have systems in place to keep them all close to their natural temperature range…

how are you guys all doing it???

 

[gwand]

Like you I have central air with thermostat set at 75F. My eight tanks are set at 78F. I don’t run the AC 24/7 even when the outside temperature is 100F for fear of burning out the AC unit. When that happens room temp gets to 82F and tank water gets to about 80F except for the three tanks in the cellar where the room temperature stays around 75F in the summer and 64F in winter.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

This was over 4th of July weekend when we were in the midst of a heatwave. The feels like temp was 87 inside, with AC running.
I saw the forecast a week out and purchased a cooling fan for the tank.
It's an emergency only device.
I'm actually running an experiment and adjusting the temperature to allow the tank to experience seasonal variations. The tank is currently set for 80 degrees.

 

[Back in the fold]

We had an all time record Sunday . 111 degrees Fahrenheit . It was 101 inside my house . I was fine and my fish are fine . It cools down a hair at night . All but two of my heaters are unplugged and the two that aren’t don’t come on . This won’t last forever . Fall comes sooner than you think .

 

[GaryE]

I've slowly been changing what fish I keep, because of temperature. Years ago, I did that because of water hardness, with my switch away from livebearers to softwater fish. Now, I am moving away from rainforest African species to savannah tolerant ones.

My Benin C. biteniatum killies have been breeding like mad since the water got up to and sometimes above 25 degrees celsius. I use this season, a short one here, to the profit of the fish that like it.

I've fought the higher temperatures in this fishroom for four years, and admit defeat. The species that like 20c don't thrive here, so as they time out as a result, I am shifting to fish that do want warmer conditions.

It's an all year issue. I stock as lightly as I can bring myself to and use as few heaters as I can.

In Montreal, I set the AC to 25 for the annual long hot spell, and muddled through with low expectations for the summer. Here, I don't need the AC and leave the windows open from June to October, with fans in them, on timers. But I spent 30 plus years with tanks that suffered from the heatwaves, and there is no solution except staying the course, changing water and preparing in advance via stocking choices.
I'm not seeing the temperatures you guys are. Are you sure Texas isn't the afterlife and you guys didn't misbehave?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I live about 30 miles (as the cro flies) NNE of New York City. Temperatures over a years can hit summer highs in the 100 F range and in winter the worst of it is sub 0 F. We have cental heating and air conditioning. And we have a whole house back-up generator. We heat to 72 F in the cold season and we cool it to 75 in the hot months, But when the humidity is also high we drop the AC to 74 F. We also have service contracts for the furnaces in each of our two buildings and on the AC in the main house.

The above means I can pretty much keep tanks anywhere from the low 70s F (but my coolest tank is about 77 F) and I can get my plecos tanks into the low 90s F if I have do do a dry/rainy season simulation.

I also spent two summers working in Saudi Arabia- the hottest reading I saw on a thermometer was 130F (54.4 C) in the shade. According to the Google AI,

The hottest temperature ever officially recorded in Texas is 120°F. This record high has been reached twice in the state's history: first in Seymour on August 12, 1936, and later in Monahans on June 28, 1994.

Ask anybody who has lived in Saudi Arabia and they will tell you if they owned a home there and another in hell that they would rent out the house in Saudi Arabia and live in the house in hell.

 

[Magnum Man]

well the battle is not over… seems the tank temperatures, in the room without air conditioning are cumulative…
this is the tank that was 84 degrees yesterday… outside temps are supposed to be about 2 degrees lower each day, for the next 4-5 days… this tank reads this today… definitely could use some cooler weather soon…